dealing with special characters in Python and MySQL

[Leo Kislov]

ronrsr wrote:
> > >
> >     Try putting "use_unicode=True" in the MySQLdb "connect" call.
>
> tried that, and also added charset="utf8" -
>
> now, I can't do any string operations, I get the error msg:
>
> descriptor 'lower' requires a 'str' object but received a 'unicode'
>       args = ("descriptor 'lower' requires a 'str' object but received
> a 'unicode'",)
>
>
> or similar, on every string operation.

What is string operation? Every time you say "I get error" please
provide source code where this error occurs. And by the way, do you
know that for non-ascii characters you should use unicode type, not str
type?

  -- Leo